Word: cage
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last fortnight attendants at the Thompson Park Zoo, Watertown, N. Y., heard the screams of a man, the roars of an angry bear. Rushing to the bear cage, they at first saw no man, no beast. Then they perceived protruding from a cave in the rear of the cage, a man's feet...
...nightfall Dr. Paul Denicola fired into a copse near an open field and another baboon breathed its last. That was the end of Merrimack's great May hunting day. The baboons, lately bought by Mr. Braden from the Benson Animal Farm, had escaped while being transferred from one cage to another, had rooted up some of Dr. Denicola's rhubarb. Merrimackers were afraid they might bite...
Coincident with the beginning of the construction of the Dillon Field House, which took place yesterday at the site of the new structure on Soldiers Field west of the LeBaron Russell Briggs Memorial Cage came the announcement from W. J. Bingham '16, director of Athletics, that the contract for the building has been awarded to the G. A. Fuller Construction Company of Brighton...
...fodder merchants to furnish fodder; 3) After putting up the tent, the roustabouts struck, left; 4) The band followed the roustabouts; 5) A rainstorm came, razed the tent; 6) The tent manufacturer and the sheriff came and took the tent away; 7) The lions, hungry, broke out of their cage, went to the ball park, slumbered in left field; 8) The S. P. C. A. and the sheriff jailed Robert Kent, partner...
...black chimpanzee, shook the bars of his cage. Irritated, a lion roared into the instrument. Sea lions, excited with fish, grunted and barked. Monkeys chattered, birds screeched, an elephant snorted, a tiger growled, all very obligingly. But Peter, a large hippopotamus, plunged to the bottom of his tank, made not a single grunt. Coyotes, who generally bark when 5 o'clock whistles blow in Manhattan, were fooled by the siren of a fire engine at 4 o'clock, refused to bark again at 5 for the radio audience...